JOHN F. TEMPEL obituary

John F. Tempel, 87, a retired Joplin farmer who loved fishing, golfing and snowmobiling, died Wednesday at Northern Montana Hospital in Havre.

His funeral will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethel Lutheran Church in Joplin. Burial with military rites will follow in the Joplin Cemetery. A reception will be held at the church.

Arrangements are by Rockman Funeral Chapel in Chester.

Survivors are his wife, Ruby Hagen-Tempel of Clifton, Kan.; seven children, Linda Moore of Butte, Butch Tempel of Joplin, Dolores Cicon of Chester, Rod Tempel of Libby, Joan Thompson of Anchorage, Alaska, Tim Tempel of Joplin...